Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-07
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Fifty shots were fir,OF VERuONT
killed in a quarrel at a oThe Probate CONF Ia
Crook West VirginiaS interested in The Is
Christmas eve. n'''' III 3
VIM. Reed, the treasurer 2RGE +. BARBER
900 Of the South Boston railrEtrumgnt purpoi
funds, has been sentenced to this Court W.;
for seven years. trmrnt at ,
A new drink called ''Agarie" is io5i,,r'i
the 60 in Atlanta, Ga. 1t is made of eth NJ
and alchohol, and will make prohibition
ist helpless in five minutes,
\ young man and woman who were to
have been married soon were killed Christ
mas night while walking on the railway
track near South Norwalk, Conn.
large meteor burst with a loud report
between the fore and main masts of the
Antwerp steamer Rhyland during a storm
at sea recently. The meteor emitted a sui
phurous smell and the ship was covered
with shower of sparks.
The heirs of the A. T. Stewart estate
have decided to sell the pictures, statues,
choice wares and brio -a-brac in the marble
palace on Fifth avenue. The most noted
picture is Messonier's famous 1897" for
will be probably the most notable ever held
in this country, and will attract bidders
from both sides of the Atlantic.
The Children's Christmas club. chaiita-
bic organization in Washington, on Tues
day gladdened the hearts of large num-
Der Of poor little ones by entertaining them
at a good dinner and afterward distributing
toys and candy among them. The East
{ oh i -, ilof
good work for about 600 little children liv-
ing on Capitol Hill.
At Norwalk, O., on Thursday evening of
last week, Miss Mary Sherman. daughter of
n, G.. Sherman of that place, was married
to Birchard o. Hayes, son of the EXPIRES
ident. After a reception the young couple
started on a bridal tour in the east The
happy occasion was the 34th anniversary
of the marriage of ex-President and Mrs
Hayes.
The Woman's Christian temperance I'm
ion has bought'th best site in Sioux City.
Iowa, for which they have paid $50, 600.
They now intend to raise $500, 900 with
which they will erect building in memory
of the late Rev. George G. Haddock, who
was murdered at the instigation of some
aloon-keepers. The building will be the
headquarters of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union and the Young Mems
Christian Association, and will contain a
free library and reading-rooms The Metho-
dist church is also aiding in this project,
which will doubtless be accomplished. Sioux
City will then perhaps cease to be ''Iowa's
Sodom," as it is now called.
General and Senator Sherman met the
other evening at the Garfield Hospital fair
in Washington, The General was sur
rounded by bevy of pretty girls. He
was spending his money right and left and
having a good time generally, In his pere-
CARNATIONS about the room he came across
the Senator. .''How are you enjoying your
self y inquired the latter with the air of a
martyr. "Splendidly - exclaimed the
General, slapping his brothers shoulder en-
Enthusiastically, "Why, John, said he draw
ing closer, I'm bet I've shaken hands and
spoken with more people since came into
this room than You have in ten years.
I've no doubt of it, was the dry response.
IF | shook as many hands and spoke with
as many people in the past ten years as
you have l wouldn't live two years
After long and exciting chase the Pink
erton detectives have ferreted out and ar
rested the robbers who gagged and bound
the messenger and rifled the safe of an eX-
press car on the st. Louis and San Francis
co road on the 25th of October The men
arrested are five in number. Frederick
Witrock, said to be the man who perpetrat-
ed the robbery w. W. Haight, an ex-em-
ploy6 of the express company, who is sup
posed to have aided in planning the rob
berry from his knowledge of the railroad
run y Thomas Weaver, a Chicago laun-
dryman who was with Witrock before and
after the robbery Edward Kinney, a broth
er-in-law of Witrock, upon whose person
was found a considerable part of the eX-
press money; and Oscar Cook, who hid
Witrock after the robbery and divided the
money and mailed the Jim Cummings"
letters The detectives have found about
$4,000 of the stolen booty and estimate
that from $40, 600 to S4j, 600 is still unac-
counted for The chase after the robbers
covered the territory between Chicago,
Nashville, Tenn, and Kansas City, Mo-,
and its story as told by the detectives is a
romantic one.
A brutal murder was perpetrated at Ports
mouth, n. H., ON the night of the 2jth ult.
Sunday morning the police were called TO
tenement house near the Greek and up
on entering the kitchen were confronted by
a horrible sight. Lying ON her back upon
the floor was the naked body of Mrs. Mar
garet Blute, wife of Patrick Blute The
head was terribly bruised and the ribs and
body were bruised and discolored, showing
that the woman had been kicked 10 death.
The husband sat motionless beside the body.
He was fully dressed, as were four little chill
dren who were weeping and sobbing about
the room. Blute's first words TO the officers
were, This is bad piece of business, and
then he scratched match and lighted his
pipe nonchalantly. After sitting there a
few minutes he was about to go out when
he was arrested and taken to the lookup.
On the way he stated that he beat and kick
ed his wife in the bedroom and threw her
down cellar. Then he said he laid down
and slept, and when he awoke he found his
wife dead ON the floor. Then he called
some of the neighbors Blute said later
that the murder was done about $3.50 Sat
urday night